ANDREA WELTON
1988 Born Half Moon Bay, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2019 MFA, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
2016 BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2019 Teaching Associate, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
Drawing I
Drawing II
2018 Teaching Associate, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
Basic Painting I
2017 Teacher Assistant, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
Color Theory
Advanced Figure Drawing Basic Painting I
Art in Context
2009-13 Art Instructor/Manager, Little Artists, San Diego, CA
AWARDS, GRANTS, & RESIDENCIES
2019 Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT
The Arctic Hideaway, Fleinvaer, Norway
Brython Davis Fellowship, UCI, Irvine, CA
2018 Playa Summer Lake Residency, Summer Lake, OR
Dean’s Scholarship, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI, Irvine, CA
Research Travel Grant, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI, Irvine, CA
2017 Salmon Creek Farm, Albion, CA
2016 Picture Berlin Residency, Berlin, Germany
2015 Liegel Award, Fine Arts Department ACCD, Pasadena, CA
Art Center 100 Scholarship, ACCD, Pasadena, CA
SOLO/THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 Beneath the Sky, Google LAX Bin1, Los Angeles, CA
The Shape of Content, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Lidijia in the Buttermilks — Alabama Hills; Mono, Convict, June, UAG Gallery, Irvine, CA
2016 Monsoon, Fine Art Small Gallery ACCD, Pasadena, CA
2015 CAVE HEAVENS, Fine Art Small Gallery ACCD, Pasadena, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Now Trending, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA
Großkreisentfernung Mail Art Exhibition, tête, Berlin, Germany
GLAMFA, Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2018 COLOR VISION, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
Present Tense, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
Positive/Negative, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
The Great Compromise, UAG Gallery, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
Sustainability and Public Good, CAA MFA Exhibition, Cal State LA Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Painting in the Abstract: Women Inspired by the Masters, Great Park Gallery, Irvine, CA
SoCal MFA Exhibition, Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA
FAR Bazaar, Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA
2016 2016 Southern California Baja Biennale, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
Ohrwurm, Meinblau Projektum, Berlin, Germany
Open Haus, Z/KU, Berlin, Germany
derive, tete, Berlin, Germany
Now Trending, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 VoyageLA Staff, “Meet Andrea Welton,” VoyageLA, March 26, 2019,
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2018 Haunt Journal of Art Volume 5, November 20, 2018 Evan Senn,
“Seeing in Color at Huntington Beach Art Center,” Art and Cake LA, June 3, 2018,
2017 Dave Barton, “Great Park Gallery Highlights Local Female Abstract Painters in Exciting Exhibit,”
OC Weekly, September 14, 2017
2016 Jaymie Shearer, “Andrea Welton,” She Explores (blog), March 17, 2016,
COLLECTIONS
Beth Rudin DeWoody, West Palm Beach, FL
AUCTIONS/BENEFITS
2020 California Cool Art Auction 2020, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, 2019
2019 Silent Auction, Dinner with a Cause, Downtown Women’s Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2019